@gembo
You can put a nine-mil in the back of my head if you ever find my lights Gaffa-taped on.
See also retaining brackets on handlebars for lights I no longer have.
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Confessions of a Cycle Commuter
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Posted 7 years ago #
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@iwrats: I have a TL-LD1100 kicking around not being used (replaced it with a Fly6) if your attempts to repair yours fail. I agree it it is a good light.
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@ejstubbs
Very generous, thanks. I shall report back.
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Yesterday on the canal. Passed a runner. I mused & cruised for a little space, slowing down for approaching cyclists, to pass pedestrians with consideration and then was passed by the same runner.
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@iwrats, no gaffa but might have the odd bracket in the hope the next light I buy fits the existing one. This can happen
Posted 7 years ago # -
hoping gembo never sees my rear (removable) light held on with rubber band.
Posted 7 years ago # -
@ejstubbse
Turns out the dropping of the light was co-incidental. It's actually the bracket that has failed - the wee bendy thing that forms the clip had lost its elasticity. Stainless steel strip splint epoxy resined on - we shall see if it works/lasts.
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Just think how handy it would have been if you still had several legacy brackets stored on the bike to try?
Posted 7 years ago # -
@unhurt
But;
a) @gembo would have shot me down like a mad dog, and
b) I'd have missed an opportunity to Araldite.Posted 7 years ago # -
@gembo Flatbattery will get you nowhere.
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I'm now assuming @gembo goes armed at all times on his commutes, just in case he has to administer jury-rigged-light justice. A cycling Judge Dredd sort of situation.
I'd have missed an opportunity to Araldite.
You can open the tube and sniff it any time - no need to wait for these excuses to present themselves.
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@wingpig, this entry qualifies you also to run against frenchy and big Norman as future president of the GEOPOETICS society.
For the record I am pro extra brackets, rubber bands, bodges and gaffa. It is benign dictator IWRATS who has his rules
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@unhurt, araldite is two tubes you get to play mix n stick with. In my glue box anyway.
Epoxy resin, I am saying just to hear the sound of it.
Posted 7 years ago # -
@gembo I apologise, though I'm a bit sad to abandon the Dredd comparison. Btw the local Bethany Trust shop has a foot high pile of 1980s 2000ADs for sale at the minute. I can't risk going back in or I'll leave with about half of them. (One has a Joe Pineapples PIN UP on the back!)
Edit: Hmm, just reminded myself of Cal-Hab (Scotland's answer to Mega-City One.) Maybe I need to check if any of them have Cal-Hab stuff in and just buy those...
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@unhurt, get as many as you want, why not?
I had the first six copies ever of 2000AD as a wee boy. If only I had kept them in the wrapper instead of reading them, using the special agent card etc. I would have comics worth pounds and pounds.
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@ejstubbs
Looks like the Araldite and steel bodge has worked. Thanks for your kind offer all the same.
Posted 7 years ago # -
My cousin used to comment mockingly on things like my light-bracket-repurposed-as-mudguard-clamp, even though it was extremely secure.
Posted 7 years ago # -
@iwrats: You're welcome. It's always satisfying to effect a quality repair.
There's a saying: engineers like fixing things and sometimes, if there's nothing that needs fixing, they'll break something just so that they can enjoy fixing it. I studied engineering at uni but ended up in IT. However, I still have some of those engineer's urges - which might be why my bike is currently on the workstand in the garage, with the bits of its old groupset in a box and a shiny new groupset half installed.
Posted 7 years ago # -
It's always satisfying to effect a quality repair.
Tested it this morning and....the plastic is of the greasy Araldite resistant type. The steel-pinned bit has held, but not the glued bit.
Oh well, only a wee bracket. $2 online....
Posted 7 years ago # -
Duct tape and an elastic band meanwhile as you wait for it to ship?
Posted 7 years ago # -
@unhurt
Are you trying to get me killed?
Posted 7 years ago # -
What, and cut off my crowbar, micrometer & air rifle supply? No, it's just that I can't shake this image of Gembo Bickle...
Posted 7 years ago # -
My duck tape has a drawing of a duck on it
Yrs
Travis
P.s. As i reiterated IWRATS is tape police. Not me.
Posted 7 years ago # -
P.S. I know, I know - but you could carry off the haircut I think?
P.P.S. New lyrics to Jazz Police?Posted 7 years ago # -
Tape police are paid by Scotch And Duck tape
Tapers paid by Scotch and Duck tape tooPosted 7 years ago # -
Got my bit from the Bike Co-op. £2.99. No regrets for the time spent bodging though. All good.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Cycling home using my nice C&B Seen lights on the Brompton in anger for the first time. Pitch dark as I turn onto our rural road and head down hill. Decide to turn the light up to its brightest setting (I was using the lower setting as I wasn't sure how long the battery would last). Hold the button down fractionally too long and switch the light off. Do I stop, so I can safely turn the light back on (my sole light)? I do not. Instead I am looking down and fiddling with the buttons as the bike gathers speed. I look up suddenly, realise I can see *nothing*, panic, and come to an undignified but fortunately upright stop before I career off the road and into the trees (and ultimately the burn below). I think I might get a second backup light ...
User error aside, it's a nice bright light, and works really well on unlit rural roads
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(this is why I don't drive, by the way. It's funny when I'm on a bike but that level of incompetence really doesn't go well with a tonne of metal moving at speed)
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I career off the road and into the trees (and ultimately the burn below)
Good Lord, are you alright?
Posted 7 years ago # -
Yes! I meant that I managed to stop *before* that could happen. Cuh, call myself a writer and editor
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